Chapter 1
A/N: An alternate version of Thunderfall in the dragon prince universe before Avizandum's downfall Callum overhears what King Harrow and High mage Viren plan to do to avenge his mother's death and plans to stop it even if he reveals his secret AU mage Callum.
Callum packed his bag looking at Ezran as he and Bait slept peacefully before grabbing the note of his desk placing it on his bedside. He gave Ezran one last look before quietly walking out of his bedroom. Out of the room with a worried look on his face knowing full well what was going to happen as he put his bag on his back, sketchbook strapped to his body and grabbed his cloak as he made sure his henna hadn't rubbed off as he made his way to the room hoping that he hadn't lost that much time do to training.
Callum carefully walked around the castle hallways avoiding the night-time patrols as he snuck around heading towards the rooftop so that nobody sees him fly away as it's already been six days since they left as he climbed the stairs of a tower opening the door slightly looking for any guards as he slowly stepped onto the battlements standing between the parapets. Taking one last look around hoping that this won't be the last time he sees his home before taking a deep breath as he spread his arms out closing his eyes he fell off the parapets towards the ground.
"Manus, Pluma, Volantis" Callum chanted as feathers slowly enveloped his arms as he grew his wings taking one last deep breath he jumped off the tower and flew up into the night sky heading towards Xadia, hoping that he'll stop his king from making a huge mistake as his heart still stang with betrayal and hatred knowing how much the king loved his mother he still used her in a dark spell.
4 days later at the storm spire.
King Harrow and High mage Viren rode on through the snow as it continued to fall in Xadia as the approached the lair of the dragon king and queen as they brought their horses to a halt looking up into the sky seeing Avizandum's silhouette in the stormy clouds as he appeared out from his lair. Viren extended his staff to cast magic, "Here he comes" Harrow said calmly as Avizandum appeared out of the stormy clouds lightning cracking around his body to land in front of the human's claws and teeth bared.
"Leave, today of all days I will spare you, but you must turn around and leave Xadia now," Avizandum said lowering his body towards the humans "No," Harrow said sternly lowering the spear looking at Avizandum in the eye still. "Today is a special day, a day of life," Avizandum said, catching Virens attention by silently gasping.
'"Do not force me to make it a day of death," He said growling "This is your last chance, leave or DIE!" Avizandum said with a roar.
Harrow looked at Avizandum with pure hatred shoving his arm forward with Sarai's enhanced spear sparking its dark magic.
"You never gave her that choice," Harrow replied, looking at Avizandum. A tear dripped down the right side of his face, closing his eyes accepting his fate before screaming as he charged at Avizandum with Viren staying atop the hill.
Avizandum roared, rearing up as he prepared to attack the king he was stopped by Viren who cast a spell from his staff to cease his movement, groaning as he began to struggle. Avizandum roared angrily, emitting lightning from his body as he began to break free from the spell. Viren began to bleed from his nose as he groaned trying to hold the spell for a little bit longer before suddenly fainting he fell off his horse breaking the spell.
Harrow briefly looked back seeing the Viren had fallen he continued to charge on as Avizandum broke free from Virens spell he slammed a paw down towards Harrow as he threw the spear at Avizandum hearing a faint cry of no echo out before a large blast of ice came from the above striking Avizandum encasing him in an icy prison encasing the spear as Harrow fell off his horse in shock of what he just witnessed.
Drawing his sword as he turned to see Viren run down the hill with is staff in hand looking around as he came next to Harrow "Looks like someone else hates him as much as we do" Viren said as Harrow stood up with his sword in hand as cloaked mage landed on the ground. The mage attempted to stand as the feathers on his arms retracted back into its skin revealing thin faired skinned arms Harrow anger grew in him as he grasped his sword he charged at the sky-wing elf as he will not be denied his vengeance as he turned around to dodge King Harrows attack..
Up in the clouds.
Callum heard Thunders roaring in the distance as he saw Viren drop to the ground, breaking the spell watching Avizandum come free he watched Harrow still charge to his death, Callum tucked his wings close to his body pulling into a steep dive preparing to cast another spell hoping his theory will work as he got closer to Avizandum as Harrow threw the spear.
As Sarai's enhanced spear flew through the air Callum heard faintly heard his mothers voice letting a tear roll down his cheek he pulled up slightly approaching Avizandum. "Aspiro Frigis" Callum chanted as he pulled his wings forward bringing forth a blast of air and releasing a blast of icy wind out of his mouth at the same time. The magic struck Avizandum encasing his body in ice hoping that the spear hadn't penetrated his skin seeing that the ice had stopped the spear as well.
Callum landed onto the ground near the now frozen dragon king after seeing Harrow had fallen off his horse and onto the ground watching Viren approach Harrow as he landed on the ground his feathers retracing back into his arms, taking a deep breath he steadied himself before turning around he faced his step-father and high mage hearing footsteps approach he turned around only to see his step-father swing his sword as Callum dodged to the side summoning lighting in his hands as he prepared to defend himself from his stepfather.
Harrow put himself in his battle stance as he and the sky mage circled each other watching the young mage shake his head as if he was telling him to stand down as Harrow froze slightly seeing his eyes almost recognizing the mage.
"Gninthgil krad htrof emoc" Viren chanted as dark lightning came from his staff striking the young sky mage in the chest screaming as was thrown against the ice cover leg of the dragon king his voice echoed out across the valley. Both Harrow and Viren froze at the sound of the voice gasping when they both knew who it was as they approached the mage.
"NOOO '' Callum screamed out as he was thrown against the ice, breaking his ribs, clutching his body in pain as he felt the dark magic course through his body as laid down in both pain and exhaustion as he watched Harrow keel down and pull back his hood gasping revealing his step-son.
Viren approached with the horses, seeing that it was not a sky-wing elf but prince Callum who gasped as he realized that they had a primal mage in their presence and never knew about it "Callum… I'm so sorry… I didn't know… I was trying to…" Harrow said as he burst into tears as Viren came by ready to cast a healing spell when a crackle sounded out. "Oh great..." Callum said weakly as he painfully twitched as the dark magic crackled from his body.
Harrow let out a muffled curse "Just… go… leave… me here…" Callum said as he coughed up blood onto the ground "No we can't leave you" Harrow said as he tried to pick up Callum again "I'll slow you down just go… and protect Ezran and prepare for war" Callum said as he moved away from Harrow and Viren as he sat down on a rock "You are the king and you must protect Ezran and all of Katolis" Callum said clutching his chest as his blood continued to drip out his mouth "My king we need to leave" Viren said as he climbed on top of his horse.
Harrow looked back at Viren then Callum as he embraced Callum in one last hug "Forgive me, son" Harrow said as he continued to cry. Callum embraced his step-father in a weak tearful hug "Goodbye… Dad…" Callum said weakly, making Harrow choke an emotional gasp as he let Callum go. He mounted his horse. Looking back saddened at what happened before galloping away hoping to outrun any elven warriors and Thunder when he breaks free from his icy prison.
Callum watched Harrow and Viren leave on horseback as he slowly, painfully crawled away hoping to find some crevice to hide and slowly accept his fate hearing the ice crack again as tried to move faster. He violently coughed up more bloody as he tried to move forward towards a crevice that was deemed big enough, but didn't get the chance to.
Callum went very still as the sound of ice cracking from behind him intensified. He closed his eyes as Avizandum broke free of the ice with a deafening roar of anger spreading ice shards everywhere. Callum had hoped that the shards of ice would impale him on the ground to quickly put him out of his misery, but they all scattered around far and wide, the spear landing within arms reach of Callum.
Callum gasped in surprise seeing his mothers spear land in front of him but what shocked him to the core mostly was the voice "Callum" it said faintly. Callum felt tears form in his eyes hearing his mother's voice once again he leaned forward to grasp the spear a great shadow cast over his wounded body.
Callum grimaced in pain as he rolled himself over clutching the spear he coughed and hacked more blood out as he wheezed looking up at the dragon king who let a gentle growl out of muzzle, Callum attempted to point the spear up at Thunder hoping to get him to back off or make him attack.
"Gah" Callum said as his body and chest muscles screamed in pain dropping the spear as he fainted. Avizandum leaned down getting closer to Callum he let off a surprised snort as he saw the human mage faint even when he was encased in ice, he watched and heard what happened between the humans.
Avizandum looked up and he could faintly see the humans looking back at him from afar as he leaned back down he gently opened his mouth around Callum sliding his tongue underneath his body he gently pulled him into his mouth ignoring the metallic taste of blood. He maneuvered Callum between his teeth feeling the spear get lodged between his teeth he bit down breaking the tip of the spear off as it fell down to the ground he then took to the air flying back up to the storm spire.
Harrow and Viren looked on with shock seeing that what just had happened spurred on the fear and dread they fled back to the border faster than before as Harrow fought back tears knowing that his step-son was dead by the dragon king's hand.
Storm Spire.
As Avizandum flew into the Storm spire he felt the human on his tongue get weaker as he landed in the next area looking down at the eight elven dragon guard he watched them bow with joy seeing that he was alive.
"My king you survived," Said a female sunfire elf who carried a curved sunforge blade while her male kin member approached Avizandum ready to heal him, seeing that he had a patch of blood in the corner of his mouth.
"Lucky human caused you to bleed" he said as he started to activate his light-being mode ready to heal the dragon king as he opened his mouth all the elves froze at the sight of a young human who was on the verge of death. A pair of moonshadow elves ran forward grabbing Callum out of Avizandum's mouth as he swallowed his saliva and blood mixture.
"This human mage saved my life and he needs medical attention" Avizandum stated as the elves looked up at him in shock.
"He did what,?" said a male skywing elf.
"Isn't he a dark mage,?" asked the male sunfire elf.
"Draven, you heard the king, the boy is dying" said the female moonshadow elf as she closely examined Callum feeling his heart beat getting weaker.
Draven looked over at the human mage before sighing as he approached wondering what makes this one special other than the fact he saved Avizandum.
"Other than he saved you, what makes this human so special?," asked the female skywing elf as she and the other elves surrounded Callum as Draven tried to heal the boy.
"Because this human is quite possibly the first human sky mage" Avizandum said as all the elves went silent looking up at Avizandum surprised.
A/N: I have decided to rewrite this all over from chapter 1 onwards. I hope it's better now.